A good book takes us out of our daily lives and returns us to a childlike belief in magic and imagination. These fantasy authors of the past are a great place to find inspiration.

We may not have dragons to slay and princesses to rescue in real life, but there are plenty of quests that we can take to improve our stats and be more successful.

We have all likely encountered people that don’t stop talking. Even when we try to be polite to walk away and end the conversation, they just keep talking non-stop and are chronic time wasters. What if they were D&D monsters? Here’s a DnD homebrew monster and statblock for these compulsive chatters. And some tips for how to make a person stop talking and dealing with these over-talkers in real life.

I’m addicted to buying video games. I'll be looking forward to this amazing title, but then I keep buying games and not playing them. I tell myself, I’m not going to get any more until I finish what is in my library. But every Steam sale, I end up buying games I never play. Many players have libraries full of games that have never even been installed. So why don’t we play the games we buy?

Every day, we face a crossroads of how we will spend our future and if we will follow our dreams. But how to know you are on the right path? It isn’t always easy. Here is an analogy of the journey and choosing the right path. What are the signs of being on the wrong path? And how to choose the right path in life and follow our dreams?

I am a people pleaser. Making others happy shouldn’t be a bad thing. After all, what’s the danger of being a people-pleaser? But it means losing yourself, almost entirely. Why am I a people pleaser? It’s a habit that I can’t shake. These are my confessions, the confessions of a people pleaser. And what recovery and authenticity mean to those, like myself, that are trying to find their way back.

Once the best, max-level gamers were once low-level newbies themselves. The making of greatness starts in humble beginnings. When searching for authenticity and meaning, look to your beginnings. Start finding your purpose by looking at your past. Here are some questions to search those childhood memories, so that you can work on remembering who you are by remembering who you used to be.

Is life an RPG? In role-playing games, you get to beautiful landscapes, exciting action scenes, fantastic stories, interesting characters, and best of all, be the hero. But what about real life? There's no magic or fiery steeds. But if life was a game, how would it compare to our favorite RPGs? Here’s a review of the game of life and why real life is the hardest RPG of all.

Self-discovery as the hero’s journey. Heroes in stories go on great adventures and return home heroic. We can take the steps that Joseph Campbell described in the Hero's Journey in our own search for purpose. It is not an easy journey, but no great adventure ever was. Starting with the Call to Adventure, we pack our bags and set forth on an adventure of authenticity to become our own hero.